It got real around the red table again when Jada Pinkett Smith admitted she was once a sex addict.
Pinkett Smith made the revelation during an episode of her Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk.
“My sort of addictions jump. They jump around,” she said. “When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that everything could be fixed by sex. You know what I’m saying?”
The Set It Off star also confessed she is a former gym addict and that she once had a drinking problem.
“I remember reaching a rock bottom that time I was in the house by myself, and I had those two bottles of wine and was going for the third bottle,” she said. “And I was like, ‘Now hold up. You’re in this house by yourself going onto your third bottle of wine? You might have a problem.'”
Pinkett Smith said that epiphany caused her to put down the bottle immediately.
“So, I went cold turkey. That’s the thing about me: I can go cold turkey. I am a binger, and I always have to watch myself, and I can just get obsessed with things,” she continued. “It’s not what you’re doing but how you’re with it. Why you’re doing it. It’s the behavior that’s attached to it because if you want to have a lot of sex, that’s great, but why are you having all that sex? That’s what you’ve got to look at.”
Pinkett Smith’s mom, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, also discussed her heroin addiction and recovery.
“It’s difficult to talk about something that is gonna go out to the world,” an emotional Banfield-Jones said. “I couldn’t hide the unmanageability of my life, and the emotional damage and the spiritual damage I did to myself and to her. That was devastating. I abused drugs for over 20 years.”
Banfield-Jones, who has been clean for 27 years, admitted she got help when she found love.
“At that time, I didn’t think I was anything without a man. So, I had this man come back in my life. It’s sad to say that I did it for a man,” she said.
Her daughter was empathetic and acknowledged addiction could be a family trait.
“Alcoholism and drug addiction runs through my family, and I’ve had my own addictions that I’ve had to get over. It just made me realize that really great people just get caught up,” Pinkett Smith said.
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